Removing informix software bundle installations – IBM GC23-7753-05 User Manual

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Chapter 4. Removing or modifying Informix and client
products

The uninstallation application facilitates removal of IBM Informix product
installations and reduction of a database server installation size without total
uninstallation.

Review the following information to uninstall or modify Informix.

Removing Informix software bundle installations

Open the uninstallids.exe file to remove both the database server and all client
products that were installed with the ids_install.exe command of the Informix
software bundle. This method to remove the installed software bundle is faster
than uninstalling each individual product separately.

You must have Windows administrator privileges to complete the uninstallation.

Important:

Using the uninstallids.exe command removes all Informix server and

client product installations in the folder, without the option to uninstall only
specific features of an installation. You must start the uninstallation of a specific
product in order to remove some of its features without entirely removing the
program installation. The uninstallation of either Client SDK or Informix Connect
alone is documented in the IBM Informix Client Products Installation Guide. The
uninstallation of the JDBC Driver alone is documented in IBM Informix JDBC
Driver Programmer's Guide

If you have multiple installations of the software on the computer, the
uninstallation application affects only the installations located in the %INFORMIXDIR%
path indicated in the command.

Open the %INFORMIXDIR%\uninstall\uninstall_ids\uninstallids.exe file.

After Informix products are removed, you can manually delete the %INFORMIXDIR%
directory. It is not deleted automatically.

Uninstalling or reducing an Informix database server installation

Use the shortcut on the Windows Start menu to remove an entire Informix server
installation or to remove only specific features of the product.

Shut down all instances of the Informix server before uninstalling the product.

If you have multiple installations of the product on the computer, the
uninstallation application affects only the server installation that created the
Windows Start menu entry from which you are launching the uninstallation.

To uninstall the entire Informix database server installation or just specific features
of the installation:
1.

Select Start > Programs > IBM Informix Version 11.70 > uninstallserver.

Select one of the following options:

Complete uninstallation

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